Quote Originally Posted by Captain Hanks
Well I know it wasn't physcologicall if that's what you mean by constantly thinking about it. Although I do have to agree I am very light of weight having 5% bodyfat (mostly muscle). Basically, are you saying that it's a few hours for "most" people and more for lightweights? Because I'm still extremely low in bodyfat and it doesn't happen anymore (due to tolerance). BUT! Wouldn't that mean it's not true about being done with in a few hours time and leave the option for up to a month possible?
Let's put it this way.

When you get high for the first time, it feels very different and new. You experience sensations which you didn't know your mind was capable of producing. Now, when the drug wears off (which usually wears off in a few hours for most people , and even less time for those with tolerance), it does so gradually.

When you smoke pot, the THC is absorbed into your bloodstream through your lungs. The THC flows through your veins, through your heart, saturating every organ in your body with the chemical. When it reaches your brain, the THC attaches to the appropriate receptors in your brain. This causes a series of events and chain reactions which cause neurotransmitters to build up in certain parts of the brain. When the neurotransmitters are building up, you are coming up on the drug. When everything is set in motion and the chain reaction begins, you are "high off the drug". Obviously because marijuana is a drug (and causes slight chemical imbalance with neurotransmitters in the brain), your brain needs to re-adjust back to normal. So while your brain is adjusting back to it's normal , un-stoned state, you are essentially high. When you feel fully functional again, the high has wore off, and your brain has more or less returned to it's normal, original state.

Because it's the first time your brain experienced the high, and it was such a novel experience, there are several factors which might make you feel "stoned" still. What I recommend you do is smoke another joint and see how you feel. If you're totally unaffected by that joint, then I'd say go to the doctor (it's confidential). However if you get stoned off the joint, I'd say you're imagining things. It's virtually impossible to stay stoned for 30 days. It's got to be in your head, because for you to be literately stoned off THC for 30 days, you'd need a continuous supply of the drug to reach your brain. And even then, you'd build up tolerance to the drug, noticing less effects as time progressed.

There is a noticible difference between feeling the "weed-over" (after-effects of marijuana which cause you to feel slightly out of it but not totally stoned) and being stoned off your ass.

My theory is that you're thinking too much about the weed. Or possibly, you have mild HPPD (don't get scared). HPPD is hallucinogen persisting perception disorder, and is usually experienced by those who have acute reactions to LSD, Psilocybin, Mescaline, and even cannabis in extreme cases. HPPD is characterized by open-eye and cloesd-eye visuals, extreme shifts in perception (similar to the feeling that you're constantly on a psychedelic drug), or a geneal sense that you never really came off the drug (essentially drug psychosis). As of today there's not been much research done on this condition. I doubt if this is your case though.

I'd say that since it was your FIRST high, that your brain is still putting all the chemicals in their proper place. meaning that your brain is still recovering from the THC. don't worry. It'll all be good.

You'll notice that as your tolerance increases, this effect diminishes. I'd say that you're very sensitive to THC because you've never experienced it.

Don't worry, it'll work out.